Wearing-apparel.



M. M. DRYFOOS.

I WEARING APPAREL.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.14, 1m.

Patented Feb. 25, 1913.

NH/[income UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MILTON M. DRYFOOS, 01: NEW YORK, N. Y.

WEARING-APPAREL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 25, 1913.

Application filed September 14, 1912. Serial No. 720.437.

. or underskirts forwomen, and it has forits object to provide a garmentadaptable, by a slight adjustment, to fit women having waistmeasurements varying from the normal smaller sizes to the normal largersizes, whereby a dealer in such garments is relieved of the necessity ofcarrying in stock a wide range of sizes, and the invention consists incombining in the waist band of the garment a strip or strips of elastic,and plaits in peculiar arrangement as will be hereinafter more fullydescribed and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification,Figure 1 is a rear elevation of a petticoat constructed according to myinvention. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing two of the plaits.lct out toincrease the measurement of the waist band. Fig. 3 is an elevation fromthe front wvith aportion of the waist band removed.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout. all .the views.

--As is well known in the trade dealers in ready niade'wearing' apparelare now compelled to keep in stock a wide range of sizes of each garmentin order to be in a position to meet the requiren'ients of theircustomers, with the result that the stock is burdened with garments ofunusual sizes, smaller or larger than the normahand for which the demandis infrequent.

' Now, it is the purpose of this invention to changes therein to adaptit to fit the custonier.

IIl carrying out my invention I secure shot-t lengths of elastics A inor to the waist band of the garment C by stitching the same hereto whilethe elastics are .in their extended or stretched position, the stitchingbeing made along the top and bottom of the elastics so that the materialof the waist band or garment contracts into small folds-a when theelastics are released. At one or the other end of the elastic at eachside of the garment and, preferably, at that end adjacent the placket ofthe garment, the waist band is formed with a series of plaits D, made byfolding the material of the waist band on itself and stitching the sameat top and bottom, so 'that the folds lie flat, one on the other, andadd but little to the thickness of the waist band. The folds or-plaitsmay be of any desired or preferred width, and the number in each seriesmay be regulated according to the number of sizes the waist band isdesigned to be adapted to fit but the number of plaits in each seriesshould be the same, so that the placket shall maintain the samerelative'position at all'times. In the present instance I have shownthewaist bandformed with six ((5) plaits, arranged three (3) at each sideof the garment, and the plaits are each one-half inch in width. Thus,supposing the waist band to be twenty three inches, and it is desired toadapt it to a waist. measuring twentymine inches, all that is necessaryis to let out, by cutting the threads, one plait at each side thusincreasing the measurement two inches and adapting the garment to awaist measuring twenty-nine inches, the additional four inches requiredbeing given by the stretch of the elastics. With three plaits on eachside and each plait one-half inch in width it will be seen that theletting out of all .the plaits will increase the length of the waistband sixinches to which is added the stretch of the elastic, two inchesfor each elastic, making a total increase of ten inches and adapting thegar-mt .t to a size thirtythree waist.

Having described my invention what I claim is:

1. A waistband for wearing apparel hav-' y v I ing plaited sectionsformed therein, and ment of the band may be increased by reelasticsarranged in the length of said waistleasing the plaits. i 10 band,whereby the measure fient of the band In testimony whereof, I afix mysigma may be increased by letting out the plaits. nture, in the presenceof two Witnesses.

2. A waist band for wearmg apparel hav- MILTQN DRYFOOS. ing elasticssecured therein, and a series of Witnesses: 1 plaits of uniform widthformed in said band J. REGHSGH'LED, at each side thereof, whereby themeasure-- 7 MORTON WALLACH.

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